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Version: 2.0.1
by: Alternator [More]

Important
I have recently uploaded the initial release for the successor (replacement) to Extra Bars called Button Forge.
Button forge addresses several of the problems present in Extra Bars (such as Companions sometimes causing an error at first login, poor performance in certain scenerios etc), perhaps the biggest change is the ability to create as many or few bars and buttons as you choose.
I encourage you to take a look:

Button Forge


Note: I have uploaded a v4.0.1 compatible version of Extra Bars now! (I only plan to provide basic support for this addon, but I will try to keep it operational for the time being... I may have a longer term plan if I find the time at a later date i.e. Extra Bars using the Button Forge engine which is a better engine)

(Both addons can operate side by side if you want to give it a try first)




Description
Adds 4 extra action bar you can drag abilities, items, macros, mounts and critters to.
This bar will not alter your existing actionbars or other user interface elements in anyway.


Project goal
To provide additional action bars to the user interface with as little learning curve or time spent configuring as possible.


Features
This bar is modelled very closely around how the standard action bars work. This includes features such as:

  • Dragging of macros, items, abilities, mounts and critters to the bar
  • range, cooldown, hotkey, etc... indicators
  • A different set of actions for each talent spec
  • Automatically update abilities to the highest rank when new abilities are learnt

Additional features include:
  • The ability to drag the bar to the desired location on screen (this can be locked in the settings screen)
  • Abilities that are unlearnt will remain in bar as a faded '?' and will become usable again once the ability is relearnt (for respeccing)
  • The ability to drag any item to the bar even if it doesn't have a use (this can help to keep track of counts of an item)
  • Dynamically set the number of buttons per bar (1 - 12)
  • Disable Tooltips
  • position the bar horizontally or vertically


Usage
  • To add buttons drag them from your inventory, spell book, macro's tab, or from other buttons into the button you want them in.
  • To change settings go to the Interface->Addons->Extra Bar menu option
  • A faint icon can be found at the top right corner of each bar, clicking this will provide some quick graphical options to configure the bar including a shortcut button to the bars configuration page
  • To bind keys to the buttons go to the 'Extra Bar' section of 'Key Bindings'

Restrictions:
  • Most settings cannot be changed while in combat
  • Actions cannot be dragged to or from the bar while in combat


Issues
  1. Macros with identical names may be switched around on the bar
  2. Items with a cooldown do not display the time remaining in the tooltip
  3. Critters and Mounts do not darken if they cannot be used
  4. the visual state of a macro that casts a mount or critter may not be displayed up to date

Notice: This mod is in beta, I will try to deal with any issues that arise as I have time but please feel free to list issues if they occur.


Planned Features

Planned for next version:
  1. Add option to allow graphical configuration options to be fully hidden
  2. Add slash commands for config options
  3. Investigate Button Facade and rActionButtonStyler support
  4. ...

Planned to be implemented by version 1.0:
  1. Provide localization support
  2. Provide full reset ability
  3. Custom interface for key bindings (to allow the next feature to be viable)
  4. Dynamic creation of extra buttons and bars (as many or few as you desire)
  5. Conditional bar display (based on macro conditionals)

Possible future features:
  1. Provide extra display info on the buttons such as cooldown times
  2. Buttonfacade or other skinning addon support ?!?

04-Oct-2016 v2.0.1
- Addressed bug where on first login Items would not trigger off EB buttons
- No longer attempt to show a tooltip for items that the player no longer holds (resulted in a silent error)
- Equipment sets wont show up as disabled when you log back in (it was a visual only issue)

27-Sep-2016 v2.0.0
- Complete overhaul of the underlying Button Engine
- Proper Support for Flyout spells, and Equipment sets
- Spell Glow now included
- Hides the faint config button when bar is locked in place
- Adjusted names of config options
- Improved performance (should be)
- AlternateButtonTemplate is no longer required (my very first wow addon)
- Updated to Masque support (Button Facade is no longer supported)
- Ability to set Flyout direction
- Others???
- (we skipped v1 numbering... Really in essense Extra Bars has been release for a long long time, so going to v2 felt appropriate)

24-Jul-2016 v0.7.19
- Updated for WoW Legion (v7)
- Made fix to cooldowns
- fix for mounts
- works with the additional specs

History
30-Jun-2013 v0.7.16
- Supports WoW v5.3

14-Apr-2013 v0.7.15
- Extra Bars will now always hide when entering a pet battle

11-Mar-2013 v0.7.14
- Supports WoW v5.2

04-Dec-2012 v0.7.13
- Supports WoW v5.1
- Added support for Battlepets

03-Sep-2012 v0.7.12
- Provided the hide on vehicle option is set for the bar, the bar will now also hide when the override bar is active (e.g. when doing the darkmoon dailies)

01-Sep-2012 v0.7.11
- Updated to be WoW v5.0.4 compatible

11-Dec-2011 v0.7.10
- Updated to be compatible with v4.3 of WoW
- Added delay when logging in before missing macros are removed from Extra Bars


24-Feb-2011 v0.7.8 - Companions (mounts/critters) should now be less prone to errors (the icon may temporarily be incorrect for a few moments when first logging in, if the companion is not in cache)
- Fixed problem that was causing some spells to be removed from the bar when switching specs
- Button Facade support has been added

20-Oct-2010 v0.7.7 - Removed a debug statement that had accidentally been left in the previous release

19-Oct-2010 v0.7.6 - Updated to v4.0.1 compatibility
- Resolved issue some people experienced when first starting up regarding macros not being available (thanks to Another for pointing this out)
- Disabled auto updating of Rank for spells (this was mostly redundant and could cause a problem for the mage polymorph spell)
- Added possible performance improvement (thanks to Another for pointing this out)

21-Dec-2009 v0.7.5 - Resolved positioning problem introduced in previous release that affected the bar in some cases

19-Dec-2009 v0.7.4 - Fixed issue preventing a few certain mounts and pets not activating when clicked (most notably the Bronze Protodrake).
- Positioning of the Extra Bars is now stored as part of the saved variables
- Made minor alteration to prevent accidentally dragging a button out of its position
- Updated toc to reflect WoW v3.3 compatibility

10-Aug-2009 v0.7.3 - Fixed issue preventing items not in the player inventory not having an icon on the bar
- Lowered Bar strata to reduce the chance other UI elements appear underneath it

09-Aug-2009 v0.7.2 - Changed how items were tracked to work better with enchants (etc) and stacks of items
- Added some additional events that trigger spell status updates
- Updated toc to reflect WoW v3.2 compatibility

07-July-2009 v0.7.1 - Fixed error with how companions were kept updated

14-Jun-2009 v0.7 - Added graphical controls to provide quicker bar configuration and adjustment
- Corrected issue with Companions on the bar when a new companion is learnt
- Added a scale option to resize the bars

10-May-2009 v0.61 - Corrected tooltip for the new Number of Buttons config option

09-May-2009 v0.6 - Introduced 3 additional bars
- Ability to set number of buttons
- Vertical layout option
- Disable tooltips option
- Ability to put mounts and critters on the bar
- Updated name (Now Extra Bars since there is more than one, the folder name hasn't changed however)

03-May-2009 v0.5 - Beta version of ExtraBar
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Unread 04-05-18, 11:20 PM  
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Too bad it doesnt work properly with legion. The bars always stay on enabled.
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Extra Bars v2.0.1 uploaded

Hi I've just uploaded a significant (though in a lot of ways subtle) update.
I skipped 2.0.0 here as I anticipated a few teething problems, but it wasn't too bad... anyway here are the changes:

04-Oct-2016 v2.0.1
- Addressed bug where on first login Items would not trigger off EB buttons
- No longer attempt to show a tooltip for items that the player no longer holds (resulted in a silent error)
- Equipment sets wont show up as disabled when you log back in (it was a visual only issue)


27-Sep-2016 v2.0.0
- Complete overhaul of the underlying Button Engine
- Proper Support for Flyout spells, and Equipment sets
- Spell Glow now included
- Hides the faint config button when bar is locked in place
- Adjusted names of config options
- Improved performance (should be)
- AlternateButtonTemplate is no longer required (my very first wow addon)
- Updated to Masque support (Button Facade is no longer supported)
- Ability to set Flyout direction
- Others???
- (we skipped v1 numbering... Really in essense Extra Bars has been release for a long long time, so going to v2 felt appropriate)

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v0.7.19 uploaded to work with the latest version of WoW

This version should get Extra Bars back up and running.
It adds support for the additional specialisations.
Corrects the issues with Mounts, and also fixes some issues with cooldowns.

There may be teething problems requiring further releases, so I'll be keeping an eye out.
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Just an fyi, that I am planning to get an update out to support Legion (I've just done some updating on ButtonForge). if I have time hopefully something later today - otherwise in the next day or two.
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Extra Bars and WoD

So the next expansion is just about upon us, so I figured I'd take the moment to do a blog post about Extra Bars and WoW.

But in a nutshell, I'll be continuing support for both addons in WoD

It is a long post but if you wanted to read a bit of history and my thoughts on it all here's the link (it's on the curse BF addon page

I'll just add this as well;

Although I created Button Forge to replace Extra Bars which I had planned to desupport in time, I discovered there were a number of players who preferred the very straight forward nature of Extra Bars (and others who had found inventive ways of using it that Button Forge didn't do).

So while I see people are still downloading EB, I'll consider it something worth my time to keep working... Although I don't intend any major new features, I know some cleanup is still required to the UI (that faint glowy config button in particular - it seemed like a good idea at the time :$ ).
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I've just uploaded v0.7.18 as yesterdays upload may have still caused problems for some people.

The first time you logon with this version it will clear your mounts and battlepets from the extrabars as WoW uses new values to track these and I wasn't able to map them (in the case of battlepets it potentially would cause outright errors); but you should be able to add them back on and be good to go again.

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Extra Bars has been updated to v0.7.17 - This will support the newly released WoW v6.0.2

p.s. I'll try and post a bit of an update on me and my plans regarding Extra Bars - but the tldr will be I hope to continue to support it through WoD and improve a few outstanding issues in it as time permits.
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Question Hiding the faint icon

Hey Alternator!

Thanks for a great addon!
I would like to know if there is a way to hide the faint icon which can be found at the top right corner of each bar ?
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Extra Bars v0.7.16

Hi, just a quick update to get WoW v5.3 to recognise Extra Bars as a current addon. I got a bit delayed on providing this.
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v0.7.15 Uploaded

Hi All,

Just a quick update to prevent the Extra Bars appearing while in a pet battle.
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Originally Posted by Tolchock
is it possible to hide the drag thing? when I lock the bars, its still visible.
It isn't possible currently, but it is something I could look at altering, I'm not too sure when the next feature change for Extra Bars will be though (I'm currently, slowly getting a new v of Button Forge ready).
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is it possible to hide the drag thing? when I lock the bars, its still visible.
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Updated for WoW v5.1

Extra Bars v0.7.13 is now up

I've uploaded a version for v5.1 of WoW.

I've also added support for Battle pets so you should now be able to add them to the Extra Bars.

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This is just a confirm that I will be updating Extra Bars hopefully in the next 24hrs (I've run out of time tonight) - I expect that errors will occur when Battlepets are on the bar, but if you get other issues please let me know.

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Hey thanks for the comments and apologies for the slow reply.


Glauck, at the moment there isn't the ability to have fully red buttons on range, and unfortunately range addons aren't able to interact with this addon.
This is an often requested feature for Button Forge and something I can hopefully add to it sooner rather than later - if it proves to be fairly straight forward I should also be able to port the option to Extra Bars.
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